Message of 6-25-18

Published: Mon, 06/25/18

A Daily Spiritual Seed
Monday: June 25, 2018

Message of the Day

Be patient, not only with respect to the main trials which beset you, but also under the accidental and accessory annoyances which arise out of them. We often find people who imagine themselves ready to accept a trial in itself who are impatient of its consequences.

- Franois de Sales (1567-1622), Introduction to the Devout Life

(What trials and possible consequences of these difficulties confront you these days? How might God be found in the midst of these? What lessons to be learned?)

Readings of the Day

2 KGS 17:5-8, 13-15A, 18; PS 60:3, 4-5, 12-13

MT 7:1-5

Jesus said to his disciples:
"Stop judging, that you may not be judged.
For as you judge, so will you be judged,
and the measure with which you measure will be measured out to you.
Why do you notice the splinter in your brother's eye,
but do not perceive the wooden beam in your own eye?
How can you say to your brother,
'Let me remove that splinter from your eye,'
while the wooden beam is in your eye?
You hypocrite, remove the wooden beam from your eye first;
then you will see clearly
to remove the splinter from your brother's eye."

USCCB lectionary

Reflection on the Scripture

"[John] made his public appearance in Israel." —Luke 1:80

At a recent Mass, the priest revealed his dream during the homily. He wants to see an annual award, called the St. John the Baptist Courage Award. He envisioned that it would be awarded to that Catholic bishop who has most courageously spoken out for the cause of pro-life. The "trophy" would be a silver platter, symbolizing both the courage St. John the Baptist displayed in continuously speaking out against Herod's public adultery (Mk 6:18) and his resulting imprisonment and execution (Mk 6:28).

Such an award would be yet another encouragement for all of us, in every walk of life, to speak out against injustice and speak up for the Lord. God tells us: "Whatever I command you, you shall speak...Stand up and tell them all that I command you" (Jer 1:7, 17). "Do not be afraid. Go on speaking and do not be silenced, for I am with you," says the Lord (Acts 18:9-10).

Is the Lord calling one of you to make this dream a reality?

Prayer: Father, teach me "what to say and how to speak" (Jn 12:49).

Promise: "It was to us that this message of salvation was sent forth." —Acts 13:26

Praise: Praise You, all-loving Father, risen Jesus, and consuming Holy Spirit. I worship You with every fiber of my being. Alleluia!

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Spiritual Reading

Abandonment to Divine Providence

- by Jean-Pierre de Caussade

Section V: The Divine Influence Alone Can Sanctify Us

No reading, nor any other exercise can sanctify us except in so far as they are the channels of the divine influence.

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This divine will, working in the soul of a simple ignorant girl by means of sufferings and actions of a very ordinary nature, produces a state of supernatural life without the mind being filled with self-exalting ideas; whereas the proud man who studies spiritual books merely out of curiosity receives no more than the dead letter into his mind, and the will of God having no connexion with his reading his heart becomes ever harder and more withered.

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